WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040110-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 2009
• Sequence Number: 110
• Publication Date: May 27, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : Chief, Language and Area School DATE: 27 May 1959
FROM : Deputy for Language Training
suBJECT: Weekly Activities Report
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A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None to report.
B. OTHER ACT IVIT IFS
1. Six students, including several from the D have enrolled
in a new Intermediate Russian Seminar, conducted by
informal conversational sessions are based on readings from Elisaveta
Fen's Russian Reader and the contemporary Russian press. It is at
the lower intermediate level. Two seminars are currently being given
in Russian, none in any of the other East European languages.
2. Due to sudden changes in work a i nments the training requested
b TO/EE/DDP, for Messrs. n advanced
y rhad been wore ou involving
Polish, has been canceled. A program
well as a schedule of laboratory
instruction by
work.
met on Tuesday with to
3.
discuss the possibility of holding classes in the I in e v cinity
of "NP' Building. agreed to circulate an announcement
4 the 1 ?41 Puildinj~ area
organizing classes in the V LTP, starting n
further agreed to investiga e p
facilities in the "M" Building area and to help with recruiting instruc-
tors. IAS agreed to make every effort to comply with these requests in
i the Fall semester.
should so state in unG-LL LL r,~J11vu -- - -- -
t the ossibility of expanding the lab
to the effect that those wanting instruction
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SLTBJ: Weekly Activities Report
probably prevail for the remaining twelve weeks of the course.
6. In order to improve instruction while staying within the limits
of the manpower available, the Part-Time Basic French class of nine
students split up into a morning and an afternoon session. The increase
in student interest and the progress in student formance have been
quite noticeable. Although the loss of er anticipated for
29 Y ay will put an extra burden on the department, this schedule can
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